[Openchrome-users] DRM AGP update.

[Thomas Hellström]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:

>Thomas Hellström wrote:
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>>There's an update in the drm that should hopefully make AGP DMA
>>sort of stable and lower the latency.
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>When did this update occur?  I'm not seeing anything new today.
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A week or two ago, but no complains so far.

>This box has run with latest drm and with EnableAGPDMA at least 
>since Monday -- never overnight though.
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>Haven't noticed any problems.  On the contrary: things are snappier.  
>I assumed it was the new 2.6.19 kernel installed last weekend, but 
>the quicker boot time comes on the count of better DMA then?  Nice.
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Hmm, I also perceive EXA as snappier with AGP DMA. Pretty useless before,
but it shouldn't affect boot time, really. Possibly 2D accel and to some 
minor
extent 3D framerate and XvMC cpu usage.

/Thomas

>Benno
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